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Originally Posted by pdurrant
It's certainly possible to have a drop cap look nice for a specific font and body-text line height.
What is not currently possible (except, perhaps, with Amazon's KFX format, I haven't checked) is to define a drop cap that is guaranteed to look good with the user's choice of font and line height.
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What makes this method interesting is that line-height is usually is about 20% larger than the font size.
Source:
http://smad.jmu.edu/shen/webtype/lineheight.html
That is why with these calculations it will look nice with most of the fonts.
But you're right, they are still to create a definitive solution that will be compatible with all fonts and devices.